When I was that age - or even your son's age - I of course could't touch my dad's component system. So I heard his records with decent sound, but my own stuff I had to play (for a few more years) on the same blue plastic GE portable player/amplifier with detachable speakers that I was given as a younger child. (In our teens my brother and I were upgraded to a TT/receiver/speakers component system, but it was still way inferior to Dad's, which we still couldn't use.) No wonder that as an adult I've put together a system with a vengeance that shames any he ever had! (Not that I'd let my own kid use it - if I had one! - but I do like to think I'd follow your example.)
